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BOSTON — You score 14 points in the first quarter, 18 in the first half and 30 for the game. You’re the point guard and your team just won a playoff game to go up 2-0 in a best-of-7 series. You’d think you’d be pretty pleased. Not Rajon Rondo on Tuesday night and not the Celtics. “We’re not happy with the win but obviously you’ll take any one you get in the playoffs,” Rondo said in his patented calm tone. “But we know we have a lot to improve on. There are so many areas.” Like rebounding, where the Knicks beat the C’s, 53-37, including 20-9 on the offensive glass. “They destroyed us on the glass,” he said. “Obviously, without Amar’e, they had to help a lot, but we’ve got to crack back. Our guys have to do a better job of boxing out the bigs. As a team overall, we have to do a better job at rebounding the ball, and that’s been our problem throughout the season. We escaped tonight, another one, but nevertheless, we got the win.” But it wasn’t all bad. As a matter of fact in the first quarter, Rondo showed he was ready to take over the game, scoring 14 points, including 12 on lay-ups as the Celtics were getting out in transition at will against the Knicks thanks to Kevin Garnett and Paul Pierce. “I just thought, Kevin and Paul gave me great outlet passes and I tried to attack the rim,” Rondo said. “I think I tried to attack Game 1 but my layups were getting blocked and I didn’t make a couple. But tonight I made them, I stayed aggressive, I tried to expose them because I don …